central russia is reeling from friday's spectacular meteor strike left over a thousand people injured cause widespread damage. anti-government protesters once again clashed with police. in support of the president. accusing the opposition of simply inciting violence. by his fellow republican u.s. defense secretary nominee chuck hagel will be given another try but only for

a week. a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at the moscow. with your world wide . people in your roles are recovering from the shock of the meteo that crashed in the area on friday that the space rock exploded in the sky creating a powerful shockwave and damaging hundreds of buildings twelve hundred people have been injured as a result many of them school children who were in class at the time. i don't.

think the now dozens of people were taken to hospital following the devastating explosion. going off reports now from the epicenter. thankfully the night passed quietly and without any incidents in chile i've insistence there were fears that more meteors were going to hit the area nothing of the kind happened but the consequences of friday's meteor are still quite a handful it's not only about shattered go out lots of old buildings were damaged as well like this factory there behind me where parts of the wall and roof just collapsed which is remarkable since we're around one hundred kilometers because there are sixty miles away from where the media or fell on friday the explosion was so powerful nasa says it was equal to around twenty minute stropped on hiroshima thankfully these explosions caused by the media were not accompanied by lethal

radioactivity for more what happened here on friday here's this report it wasn't a bird a plane or superman but something much wouter right faster many times of war terrifying speed bright like him shiny across the sky you know blinding brighter than the sun it was around nine am when the skies were suddenly lit up by a media war flying over children's breaking into three parts leaving a striking trail of smoke before vanishing just minutes later the city and the surrounding areas were literally rocked by a series of massive explosion. and i immediately called one of my teammates who lives in my building and i you know i couldn't get through to him by phone in work so i was a little bit scared at that point so powerful it damaged buildings and shattered windows all across the city of dallas the bottom of your family i was told that a plane crashed right into our building then we were told that

a wall has been partly dislodged and metal structures inside of a band by the blast wave it was very scary. but. many were able to film the unearthly to nominate one leader flooding the web with footage as rumors. read of what it might have been a stricken airplane a satellite that fell out of orbit even the beginning of the end of the world and our t.v. documentary crew that was working in the area suddenly found themselves at the center of events to put up that they saw a huge tail in the sky light from an airplane and then there was a bright fire and an explosion but the feeling was like there are stats ring we thought some military jets may have crashed or that it was some manmade disaster it was a relief to find some natural phenomena anybody except for over twelve hundred people were injured including over two hundred children mostly from pieces of shattered glass not one of the girls ran out to take pictures yes. and she was

thrown in by the wave that came after the the flash and then we. my ears got blocked and the whole room get got filled with dust just like like a fog it's estimated the media as we varied from ten to forty tons and its speed of around twenty miles per second it gave it a huge amount of energy and made it very difficult to detect you know that there are telescopes and networks operated by nasa in the u.s. and what's cosmos in russia and the european space agency others that are out there trying to detect and track asteroids but honestly there's a lot of there's hundreds of thousands and their biggest focus is on the really large ones ones that are hundreds of meters in diameter or kilometers in diameter that could potentially you know do to the os what happened to the dinosaurs thankfully no one was killed this time and luckily to me we didn't hear just the facilities including several nuclear sites located in the region. lawrence maxwell

across from the school of earth and space exploration he says that this was an event of huge scientific interest. meteor isn't asteroids are common many of them come from the outer part of our solar system perturbations from the planet jupiter and other planets there's a huge. store of of comets asteroids out outside the orbits of jupiter and outside in fact the outer solar system some of them periodically get disturbed by the gravity of the inner planets and get sent inwards some of them are big balls of ice and become comets others are big balls of rock and the impact on mars and the earth and the moon and. what's fascinating is actually you could if you can collect some of this material some of it is primordial if we actually detect it and we can we can get it right after it falls we can actually measure material that hasn't been processed since the solar system formed four and have

billion years ago so for scientists it's a fascinating event and i'm happy that people weren't killed by it but if some of that material can be recovered it'll be incredibly interesting and important for scientists. we've got have many more images of the exploding space rock as well as vivid examples of how exactly how awful it was to saddam dot com for you you can have a line for that as well as updates footage and more firsthand accounts. this is r t egypt has once again being shaken by burning buildings and stone throwing protesters with tear gas and water cannons unleashed in response it's all as rallies against the president and ruling islam ists have routinely turned into clashes with riot police there and you don't arrest began on the second anniversary

of the country's revolt and i've been taking place weekly since then this time however there was a massive rival rally organized by a hard line islamists thousands gathered in cairo to show their support for president morsi and islamic law demonstrators at last out of the opposition blaming them for violence that has taken at least seventy lives in recent weeks despite this display of loyalty to the current leadership many experts believe its days are ultimately not. what do crowd in egypt in the last two years just one effect a coup by twelve percent it's the actual number of eligible voters who voted for this sharia constitution and that's the muslim brotherhood and the majority of the egyptians so they are dead set against any kind of shari'a constitution they want to have their democracy they want to be able to breathe openly and worship god in their own way and not be told what to do now i think the interesting thing is what's happening in washington since the second obama term began i think what we're

seeing is on the obama have it that this entire muslim brotherhood experiment of the arab spring has turned out to be a catastrophe and they're pivoting their energies towards china and downgrading those fourth of the groups like more sleep so i think what's playing out now is the brotherhood is finished in egypt i don't see any way that there's going to be a reconciliation and the people the people smell that this sense that they feel that and that's what's driving so either the brotherhood steps that are peacefully and respects the will the majority or we're going to have a very bloody ugly egypt. all right shifting gears now to the out of libya where unlike egypt rallies marking the two year anniversary since the n.t. could after the uprising broke out largely been peaceful so far but fears of unrest and violence are still strong if there's a mixed mood in the country ahead of official celebrations in benghazi the birthplace of the revolt a bomb exploded outside a police station

a local media reported the attack was purely criminal and lacked any political motive there is however a growing feeling of discontent over the power of militias the abundance of guns and a lack of government control a political analyst but he explains what trends in post could offer libya threatening the country's future. what we have seen over the last two years in libya is that this integration of a new form of central control paving the way for the fragmentation of the country into three states at the same time there is rampant lawlessness in the country there is an outgrowth of fundamentalism of the criminal that has spilled over into mali as we have seen over the last couple of months a little bit. more than two months and at the same time we have this but sort of. drive breaking out between the front militias and the country so yes

a lot has changed but not for the better or to minutes past the hour moscow time chuck hagel will be given another shot at becoming the u.s. defense secretary after the senate returns from recess now in less than ten days a stalling vote by hagar's fellow republicans saw him fall just short of landing the new job earlier this week artie's guy nature can as the story. those who blocked the vote on chuck hagel nomination this thursday know very well that he will eventually be confirmed as defense secretary there are enough votes in the senate to confirm him but the stalling of the vote together with the humiliating treatment that the senators gave chuck hagel two weeks ago at his confirmation hearing this whole process is seen as a message all by itself those lawmakers showed that they could crush anyone who would allow themselves to dissent from washington's core foreign policy beliefs chuck hagel remarks at the confirmation hearing disappointed even his supporters

during the hearing which to many seemed like an inclusive mr haygood had to backtrack on many of the statements he had made before including that war with iran should not be an option including his criticism of israel's actions and some other foreign policy views that he had expressed as a senator so throughout that long an exhausting hearing mr haygood kept apologizing for much of the previous statements he had taken from previous positions he had taken and he bent backwards to show how quote unquote mainstream his views are in the senator's case kept accusing him of not being again quote unquote mainstream enough to get the job chuck hagel swore to defend basically all of washington's foreign policy orthodoxies his confirmation process has been humiliating in many ways and it demonstrated the state of u.s. foreign policy of policy basically intolerant of the mill target of vision alternative claude having said all that the president's decision to nominate chuck hagel of course knowing the position chuck hagel had taken before was also seen as a message president obama had said previously that there is too much war talk going

on and maybe by nominating chuck hagel he wanted to play down because too many people here in washington are too eager to talk war just during the confirmation hearing the word war was mentioned one hundred twenty times the word iran one hundred eight times by comparison of ghana's than the war that the u.s. is fighting right now just twenty six mentions of course those are just words but they may very well show how eager many many in washington are to discuss new wars without even having finished the old ones. ati's guy nature kind reporting their assistant secretary of the us treasury under ronald reagan that of a poll craig roberts he told us here at r t how some of her goals previous comments of alternately backfired against him. she had. made a mistake some years ago when he said that he was an american senator not an israeli senator and this instant to come up the coast in the in the last

presidential election in the united states the israeli prime minister. supported it but it. was a potent move the peace process for the world and treated president of the united states and in very demeaning way. and so obama now is answering back to the israeli prime minister by appointing a u.s. senator who did a very very rare thing and asserted his independence. of the israeli government. this is auto and u.s. authorities are planning to file away every tweet and into a show. they're doing a lot of other stuff that they should be doing like killing people across the world but you know there's only so much we can do and i think. on the priority but i'd still want that they should stop there and i'm just a bit later in the program here laurie hoffman it's christmas people in new york

that's kind of interest is a necessary safeguard or a sinister form of snooping. and attempts to study the shaky global economy of being made g twenty gathering of finance heads here in moscow we report on the crux within the ranks with other news as well after a very short break. technology innovation is developments from around russia we've. covered. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything.

welcome to the big. news today. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are today. live from moscow this is with me rule research there is a big new game against big brother being played all across germany where activists are teaming up to destroy as many surveillance cameras as possible the players

claim their message is serious and that they are protecting their privacy threatening a major protest in berlin just a bit later in the day. explores whether their actions all valid or just another form of. if you want to get the feeling that someone is watching you whilst walking through the streets of the german capital that may be more to it than paranoia. the amount of sensitivity civilians on the rise and snot as bad as in other countries for example of the u.k. where millions of cameras are stored but still the number is rising and that's worrying us. that increase has seen some berliners take quite drastic action and fight back against what they see as the invasion of their privacy the target for their fight the cameras themselves the phenomenon has even produced an online game cam over the rules are simple film yourself destroying c.c.t.v.

cameras posted online and points are awarded to the amount of cameras smashed as well as bonus points for creativity although many privacy campaign is uneasy this more militants approach we're not a particular big fan of while and even if it's while it's against things that's a form of protest we do not support of the we support the message. is contest will culminate in a protest ahead of the european police congress in berlin law enforcers fear the movement and its methods will only rise in popularity and public damage i don't think it's it's a group that is committing these crimes i think these are some people from the left wing political corner they want others to compete with them to destroy cameras and what about allegations that the rise in c.c.t.v.

coverage was turning berlin into an all well state no i don't think so i think but we have a strict law that only personal belongings or the personal. ground you own can be protected by a camera you're not allowed to point the camera at a public street and so i don't think there's. a big brother watching everybody or germany does. some very strict laws when it comes to personal image rights even global giants like google of how to censor the faces of anyone snapped on this street view service the advancements of things like smartphones and the amount of pictures taken and uploaded to the web every day should to make it even more difficult for those who prefer to keep their anonymity the authorities deny that big brother is watching you in berlin however as the amount of c.c.t.v. in the city goes up it becomes increasingly difficult not to get caught on camera

peter all over r.t. berlin. and over at our web site right now r t dot com an image of two palestinian children killed by israeli soldiers it scoops the two thousand and twelve world press photo award but it turns out there are even more shocking images doing the rounds on social networks and sparking outrage to find out details on that r.t. dot com. also online for you a russian man raids a mental health center to rescue his girlfriend claiming she was unfairly sections of the request of his mother find out why the couple still has nothing to fear. the finest chiefs of the world's biggest economies have united in chorus against looming currency wars following high level talks right here in moscow for russia the gathering is seen as a launch pad for its hosting of the g. twenty summit later this year artie's lucy catherine of reports. japan is actually

at the center of this crisis because of its aggressive monetary and fiscal policies that have led to a weakening of the yen and basically in tough economic times one option that a country has is to artificially make the value of its currency worth a little bit less so for example making something like this twenty dollar bill worth less you can do that by a variety of means like printing money why would you want to do that because when you do you value your currency your manufactured goods your goods your exports become cheaper and that gives you a short term economic boost which is something that a lot of these countries europe the united states japan certainly desperately need in these tough economic times there are many problems with this approach but of course the biggest one is that when you start to do something your trading partners will say hey your stuff is cheaper i want to follow suit and do the same thing and that results in a tit for tat economic clash that we know as a currency war what we're hearing right now is finance ministers essentially saying this currency war thing it's probably not going to happen does that mean that

that's the case we don't quite know perhaps you can in other countries have gotten the message behind closed doors the other issue that a lot of experts have really brought up here is that there is no consensus in the g twenty on this issue because of internal divisions for example would you have us doing isn't really all that different from what the fed in the united states does which has been printing money furiously so there's really not a lot of incentive for countries to sort of get together and take a tough stance on this issue another battle that we've really seen emerge in these talks between the united states and europe over a spirit versus debt basically the europeans have been pushing for countries to stick to agreements that were decided upon several years ago to cut down borrowing and debt they think that this sort of tough austerity measures medicine is the kind of thing that's going to help this economic crisis come to an end well countries like the united states and we in fact i've heard that the u.s. is blocking specifically this push and want to reduce their borrowing because they're heavily in debt and if they stop borrowing if they were. their deficits

back to theoretically hurt unemployment and other sort of domestic internal issues . why some currency war tactics work for some not for others by auntie's financial gurus of course. stacy her but the full program a bit later today for now though here is a very quick preview. everybody is doing at venezuela devalued recently by over thirty percent in the u.k. the pound has pound sterling has fallen by over ten percent against international currencies and yet their export market is up barely point one percent so it hasn't worked for them they showed up to a global currency war with their feet paper and it hasn't done anything for them you know if you show up to a gunfight with a knife chances are you're going to have your guts ripped shot dead in the street like a dog show up to a currency war with paper like mervyn king or ben bernanke here these other central

bank lands and you'll also be eviscerated gunned down in the street by the gold vigilantes and that's a good thing. starting with turkey into the arts he walked up there we go where it's where clashes have broken out between the police kodesh protesters on the fourteenth anniversary of the rest of the leader of the kurdistan workers party known as the p.k. k. demonstrations took place in several provinces across the country and security forces used water cannons and tear gas to disperse the crowds the p.k. k. has longed for for codicil tanami the money greater political and cultural rights. britain's food standards agency says the number of people who have unwittingly even the horsemeat will never be in the interest he says that just over one percent of products tested recently for horse d.n.a. in response to the crisis showing most of the results of the meat industry is under

a. scrutiny across the european union of the test last month showed the presence of horse and pig in beef products. now street cameras and other kinds of surveillance across the united states giving citizens the feeling of having less and less privacy but it seems what you've done in the past also won't be forgotten the library of congress is now creating a database of all tweets ever posted laurie huff and esther to the streets of new york to find out whether the government is once again showing too much interests in the personal and private lives of its people. the library of congress announced that it's storing our tweet is this just another method of surveillance or is it a way of archiving the times this week let's talk about that did you know that our

government is starting to store all of our tweets they're archiving them in the library of congress not surprised you're not surprised by that now why not they're quite everything are you ok with that no absolutely not so what do we do about it you know i don't know because they're doing a lot of other stuff that they should be doing like killing people across the world but you know there's only so much we can do i think so our tweets are kind of low on the priority but it's still a point that they should stop there and yeah it's just another way that they can surveil us right yeah that's what i think how would you feel about your government storing all those tweets that scares me the soul of that because i mean like you could tweak things i mean i've had to for about three years now and i kind of member what we had back then but if they can find out and just kind of see what it was that's quite scary have you ever tweeted something that you might not want stored for all time usually a tweet recipes and food related things so i'd love it if this story. i mean there's a rude surprise grammy and all the track your facebook and they track everything

you do a lot i mean they have the right show and they stay along as the invention was five it is doing this for your protection do you believe that you trust them to use it not as a way to surveil you or invade your privacy you know i believe they are mean what more can they do i mean if you put stuff out do those you don't want to be out there that you shouldn't do with where you should just keep your private stuff to you simply on twitter and all over the place whether or not you think the government storing our tweets is an invasion of privacy and the bottom line is you better think twice before you tweet because you never know who might be listening. and then i'll just a few minutes here and i'll see it's currency wars in the latest edition of the kaiser. were.

helicopters flying through the air day and night rounds of assault rifle ammo popping as the choppers buzz over the land now this unique form of hell of terror is no longer restricted to those in vietnam in the middle east now houston miami residents of the good old usa can get in on the fun houston residents in terror called nine one one and scrambled for cover and even to schools put on lockdown as a military helicopters participated in a multi-agency training for ill in miami at night in the middle of downtown onlookers caught video on their telephones of blackhawk helicopters pumping loud blank on to the people below and maybe even as i speak a flexibly scheduled military drill could be happening in jesper county south

carolina you know when i was a kid they tell us about how that ye old soviet union would parade their tanks around how there were soldiers all over their oppressed country even in one thousand nine hundred four or world made a point to describe our military helicopters would eternally be overhead and a dystopian nightmare world now we're living the nightmare the united states is a huge country there's plenty of room on remote army bases to do your training also last time i checked afghanistan evil which is don't look like downtown miami just who are you training to kill anyways knock off the terror trainings but that's just my opinion. wealthy british style.